Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang are located between the mountains, backed by Niukou Village, and form a small triangle with the two villages of Zhangjiazhuang and Xicun.
This is also the reason why Kong Jie chose to base the defense construction of the base area on the basis of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.
The three can form a partial triangular defense system. In addition, the three villages are located in a mountain col, surrounded by mountains on all sides, and there is only one east-facing road, which is the most stable.
In addition, Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang are the two larger villages among the major villages surrounding Niukou Village.
In addition to these two villages, there are also various villages such as Longwo Village and Dingjiaying.
After the Japanese army launched a major sweep on the 12th, in order to avoid unnecessary sacrifices when the enemy was strong and we were weak.
Facing the Japanese army's raids and encirclement, Kong Jie directly ordered to lay mines and traps in the villages around Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, and then withdrew all the villagers and militiamen to the rear.
Only some outstanding comrades in the militia were left to form guerrilla teams, relying on the mountainous areas to fight guerrilla warfare and sparrow warfare, harassing and blocking the Japanese and puppet troops' raids along the way.
It has been a week since the Japanese launched a major sweep.
The entire independent regiment base area, except for Niukou Village, Zhangjiazhuang, and Xicun, all surrounding villages, large and small, have been raided by the Japanese army.
Wherever the devils go, they implement the Three Lights policy: burn them all, kill them all, and rob them all.
Fortunately, comrades from the enemy's Ministry of Industry sent back the news earlier. Before the Japanese army launched a major sweep, the Independent Regiment received the news and evacuated all the militiamen and civilians in the surrounding villages.
What was left to the Japanese was an empty village. In addition, there were various traps laid by the soldiers in advance, such as bullet mines, wooden box mines, land mines, etc. A series of ambushes turned the deserted village into a deserted village. A hell of a trap.
At first, the little devil who was unsuspecting suffered a big loss.
A squadron of Japs excitedly swept away the village's supplies, walking from the beginning to the end of the village. On the way out, they even lost nearly half of their troops.
The large number of wounded overwhelmed the Japanese who continued to march.
A large number of soldiers died without fighting, which made the Japanese officers furious.
In addition, the little devils discovered in their depression that the village had long been empty. In addition to traps step by step, these cunning Chinese people had already evacuated all the supplies and livestock that could be taken away. Take them all away.
All that was left was the bare walls and some clutter that couldn't fill the belly.
In the end, not only did the little devil not capture any supplies, but he also fell into a trap, and the entire team suffered a lot of casualties.
The so-called three-light policy, the last thing the Japanese can do is to burn it all down.
The Japanese, who suffered nearly half of their casualties, immediately used multiple fires to burn the village to vent their anger.
Later, due to various traps in the empty village, there were constant casualties among the little devils.
After the news spread quickly, Japanese troops no longer dared to enter the village at will, even if the village was empty.
But in the little devil's opinion, even if the common people and the Eighth Route Army cannot be caught, the village should be dealt with.
It's just that most of the houses in this village are made of wood and stone, and the surrounding courtyard walls are made of mud and stones.
Not every household is right next to each other. In rural areas where there are few people and large areas, some farmers can even be separated by tens or even hundreds of meters from each other.
One fire cannot burn down the entire village.
If you want to burn down the entire village, you have to enter the village and light a fire in every house.
If you directly bombard with a grenade, the efficiency will not be high, and the Japanese will be reluctant to part with the shells.
In the end, the little devils who got into trouble with the houses in the village even drove in an armored vehicle. With the armor cover of the armored vehicle, they pushed all the way along the village road, then threw torches at the houses on both sides and set the village on fire. .
Some Japanese soldiers fired incendiary bombs into the village.
After such an operation, the Japanese felt that they had taken revenge, so they gathered up the team and continued to move forward.
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20th.
6am.
With the continuous reinforcements of the Japanese army, after a night of precipitation, reinforcements from nine Japanese brigades were gathered near Xicun and the mountainous areas outside Zhangjiazhuang.
At the same time, the brigade headquarters of these nine Japanese brigades received news from Commander Yoshio Shinozuka.
The order given by Yoshio Shinozuka was quite clear and resolute:
All departments worked together to advance to Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang within three hours.
Within five hours, Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang were pushed across.
Within eight hours, Niukou Village must be captured in one fell swoop and the Independent Regiment must be destroyed.
After the order was issued, some Japanese captains met and spoke with confidence, "It didn't take eight hours. Speed it up. After the independent regiment is destroyed, we can still prepare lunch on the spot!"
Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang are backed by Niukou Village, and Niukou Village is backed by mountains. To the rear of the mountainous area, more than ten kilometers to the northwest, is the defense area of Ding Wei's new regiment, about ten kilometers to the southwest. , is the defense area of Li Yunlong's new second regiment.
Because Niukou Village, where the independent regiment is located, is backed by a mountainous area, it is not conducive to the deployment of the main force. In addition, the mountains are complex and the mountain roads are difficult to walk.
Naturally, the Japanese and puppet troops would not choose to take a detour from the mountain.
In addition, this battle took the lead around the two points of Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang. The Japanese army advanced directly from the east road, intending to capture Niukou Village from the front and destroy the independent regiment.
Around six twenty.
After discussion, the nine Japanese captains of the Japs decided to take advantage of their strength and let the Imperial Association Army take the lead. Each brigade was divided into several directions and moved forward at the same time, approaching Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang.
Outside Xicun and Zhangjiazhuang, there is a large mountainous area.
Of course, when there are more people walking, it becomes a road. There are some mountain roads in these mountains that have been walked by villagers for generations.
The Japanese and puppet troops pressed into the territory, and the scouts quickly found these mountain roads that were easier to advance.
If the Japanese and puppet troops want to reach West Village and Zhangjiazhuang, they need to walk through these mountain roads first before they can reach the eastbound road leading to the villages for easy marching.
The Japanese officers ordered the troops to line up in single file and advance through these mountain roads.
A Japanese and puppet army was advancing forward like this. On the narrow mountain road, at the forefront was a puppet army platoon of more than 20 people.
The team of more than 20 people was divided into three small teams. Each team was separated by a distance of 20 or 30 meters to guard against being ambushed at the same time.
Behind them is a Japanese squadron, with the helpless Emperor's Alliance Army as cannon fodder to explore the way. The expressions of these little devils are quite relaxed at the moment.
"Baga, the command from the headquarters is to advance to the West Village within three hours. Why is the Imperial Alliance Army so slow? Send someone immediately to urge them to speed up."
On the way, the Japanese squadron leader who led the troops forward frowned and gave the order.
"Hi!"
The order was conveyed to the puppet platoon. The puppet platoon leader was cursing in his heart, but he was respectful on the surface. He had no choice but to bite the bullet and speed up, praying in his heart:
Grandpa Balu! We are also forced to have no choice. If you want to fight, just hit the little devil behind us. Don't kill our brothers!
The squad leader of the puppet army next to me came over and said, "Platoon leader, I always feel that this mountain road is not safe, and I have been fighting in my heart. How about I send a few brothers to spread out and investigate all the way?"
Slapping the puppet squad leader on the head, the puppet platoon leader cursed in a low voice: "Idiot, how many heads do you have to investigate? What if the Eighth Route Army really ambush on the roadside and let you investigate? Come out, even if the Eighth Route Army doesn't want to attack us and focuses on the Japanese, they will have no choice but to open fire when the time comes."
"We want to survive, so we just have to move forward honestly and close one eye if we can."
"The Japs use us as cannon fodder to explore the road, and we have to use the Japs as light bulbs to attract the Eighth Route Army's attack!"
"Remember, once we encounter an ambush from the Eighth Route Army, everyone will immediately lie on the ground and don't raise their heads. If the Eighth Route Army is in a good mood, they might treat us like a fart. If anyone doesn't have a good eye, If he shoots again and injures the Eighth Route Army, our whole platoon will be finished by then."
"Did you hear everything clearly?"
"yes--"
The surrounding puppet soldiers nodded quickly in response.
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Pushing forward five hundred meters from the place where the puppet troops appeared on the mountain road, at this moment, a platoon leader of the First Company of the Independent Regiment of the Eighth Route Army was leading a whole platoon of soldiers to ambush in the forest on the right side of the mountain road.
"Platoon leader, the puppet troops are less than 500 meters away. There are about 20 of them. The Japs are hanging behind the two Japs, about a hundred meters away. It looks like there is about a squadron of troops."
The scout warriors relayed the news back.
The platoon leader nodded and said in a low voice to the squad leaders beside him: "The battle has just begun and this Japs still dares to walk along the mountain road. The Japs gathered together at this time are the best to fight.
When they arrived at the back, the Japanese and puppet troops did not dare to take the mountain roads, their forces dispersed, and began to hide in the woods. The battle was not a pleasant one.
why?
If the little devils are no longer concentrated together, even if we hit them with a cannonball, we won't be able to kill a few of them.
So don't miss the opportunity now to focus on killing the little devils. "
A squad leader asked: "Platoon leader, what should we do with the puppet troops in the lead?"
The platoon leader said: "Let it go."
"These two Japs are not good birds, they are too easy to take advantage of." The first squad leader has a straightforward personality. He feels that traitors are more hateful than Japs and hates these weaklings the most.
The platoon leader smiled and said: "What's the hurry? Our company commander said it right, there are priorities in doing things, and we also have priorities in fighting the Japanese.
Why did the little devil let the puppet army take the lead? We just want the puppet troops to be used as cannon fodder to draw out our firepower. As soon as we attack the puppet troops here, the Japanese will react immediately.
Therefore, the focus must be on the Japs. As long as the Japs are eliminated, the remaining puppet troops can take care of them as they please. "
"Yes!" the squad leader responded.
"Are the soldiers' ambush preparations ready?"
"Don't worry, platoon commander, everything is ready."
"Okay, wait until the Japs step into the ambush circle, then serve the food directly."
"yes!"
…
The puppet platoon leader continued to lead the team and soon arrived at the ambush circle first.
After casually glancing around, the puppet platoon leader, who had not slept all night, yawned and said to the squad leader next to him: "Okay, hurry up and sign to the Japanese to tell them to come over. Just say that everything is normal and you can move on." "
"yes!"
The puppet squad leader stood on the side of the mountain road, taking advantage of the higher terrain to sign with the Japanese soldiers who were more than 100 meters downhill.
After the news was passed on, the little devil didn't have any doubts. He had not encountered any ambush along the way!
The Japanese squadron formed a single file, and nearly two hundred Japanese soldiers continued to advance.
As time passed, the puppet platoon leader led the puppet soldiers across the ambush circle, and then the Japanese squadron leader led the Japanese army into the ambush circle.
The so-called ambush circle is about fifty meters long.
From God's perspective, small explosive packets were buried one after another under the shallow layers of the dirt mountain roads that had been naturally treated and showed no traces of time.
The distance between each explosive package is about five meters, and there are ten explosive packages in total.
On the right side of the explosive package, there is a wire connected to it. The wire is also buried shallowly under the soil. It jumps into the grass and trees on the right side and is completely covered. It is difficult to detect the clues. Finally, it is twenty or thirty meters away. The other end was hung on a detonator, and the detonator was controlled by the Eighth Route Army soldiers crawling in secret.
The Japanese soldiers lined up in a single file, about one meter apart from each other, and stepped into the mountainous section where explosives were buried without realizing it. Little did they know that death was coming.
The Japanese continued to advance forward, crawling in a row among the trees on the right, and slowly raised their right hands.
Until more than fifty Japanese soldiers walked through the ambush circle, and the middle section of the Japanese soldiers was within the coverage of the explosive pack, the platoon leader quickly pressed down his palms.
The ten soldiers holding detonators who received the signal did not hesitate and pressed the explosive pack detonators almost simultaneously.
The current extended out at lightning speed, directly triggering the detonator, followed by an explosion.
Boom——
In the nearly fifty-meter section of the road, a whole piece of shallow soil was sent up into the air as it was shattered into pieces. Together with the forty or fifty Japanese who were within the fifty-meter section of the road, they were thrown away and moved along the steep road. The mountain road rolled down, and some fell on the Japanese who continued to climb, along with the living Japanese.
He suddenly took action and took away more than fifty Japanese soldiers.
In response to the sudden blow, the Japanese soldiers in front and behind the ambush circle crouched down like a reflex, although they were not panicking.
The platoon leader also did not expect that these ten remotely detonated small explosive packages could kill the Japanese squadron in front of him. As soon as the explosive packages were detonated, the platoon leader waved and gave the order for the second combat group to attack.
Fifteen soldiers armed with shotguns were already ready to go and were lying in ambush at the front of the ambush circle, that is, in the forest to the right of the more than fifty Japs who had crossed the ambush circle in advance.
The soldiers quickly got a few meters closer and entered within 20 meters of the Japanese army. As they stood up, they raised the double-barreled shotguns in their hands and sprayed them at the Japanese soldiers hiding on the mountain road.
Fifteen shotguns, each shot two bullets. The projectiles were like dense raindrops, hitting the Japanese on the mountain road.
How could anyone hide from such dense projectiles?
Even if the Japanese were hiding in all directions, they would still be beaten into a hornet's nest by the sprayed ammunition.
The over 50 Japs who had rushed through the ambush circle in advance suffered more than 70% casualties in an instant under the spray of shotguns.
"Fight back, fight back!"
The Japanese squadron leader at the back of the team pulled out his command sword and screamed strangely.
As a result, before the Japs had time to counterattack, the third combat group under the command of a platoon leader, consisting of ten soldiers, each held a round rolling thunder, tore off the lead with a wicked smile, and rolled down the high slope. fall.
Although the Japanese squadron leader had never seen rolling thunder, his sense of smell as a soldier was not bad. Looking at the big smoking iron ball, he still didn't understand what was going on. His face changed drastically and he exclaimed: "Left wing, hurry up." , hide in the woods on the left!"
Boom——
Some of the Japanese who were half a beat slower to react were dumbfounded as they witnessed the explosion of the big rolling ball right in front of their eyes. Immediately afterwards, the ball was shattered into pieces and the human body was changed beyond recognition.
In the mountain forest on the right, after the attacks of the three combat groups were completed, the platoon leader waved the order to retreat without hesitation.
Even Rolling Thunder's final results were not taken into consideration.
This is called hitting a target and traveling thousands of miles away.
If it were later, the troops surrounding the Japanese would be surrounded, and they would not be able to evacuate even if they wanted to.
This ambush, in accordance with the instructions of the regiment headquarters, was designed to traumatize the Japanese and puppet troops, nothing more.
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(I recommend a good book, "Blooded Mountains and Rivers", formerly known as "Returning Mountains and Rivers during the War of Resistance", a masterpiece of more than four million words, a masterpiece of the era that was thrown into a dark room for three or four years and then released again. It is sensational and delicate. , real and majestic, you can try it if you like it.)
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